ROTC after basic

April 19th, 2012, 02:33 AM

I'm enlisted as E-2 in 91F(small arms repair); going to basic in Sept. I am in college and interested in becoming an officer. It will be the perfect time for me to join ROTC when I get back. However, I don't want to be a logistics/quartermaster/ordinance officer.

Would it be atypical for me to change branch in pursuing an Infantry or MI Commission?

Also how and when do you choose which branch you want to go to BOLC for?

I'm enlisted as E-2 in 91F(small arms repair); going to basic in Sept. I am in college and interested in becoming an officer. It will be the perfect time for me to join ROTC when I get back. However, I don't want to be a logistics/quartermaster/ordinance officer.

Would it be atypical for me to change branch in pursuing an Infantry or MI Commission?

Also how and when do you choose which branch you want to go to BOLC for?

Commissioning into a branch other than one you served as enlisted is very common.

For ROTC it depends whether you wish to commission into Active Duty or a Reserve Component. Once that is determined, how and when you go to BOLC depends. I believe HRC handles most of the ROTC Commissioned LT's BOLC dates.

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Commissioning into a branch other than one you served as enlisted is very common.

For ROTC it depends whether you wish to commission into Active Duty or a Reserve Component. Once that is determined, how and when you go to BOLC depends. I believe HRC handles most of the ROTC Commissioned LT's BOLC dates.

however, as a rule of thumb, yes, all branches take cadets - sans SF, I think you have to earn that one. As the LT says though, it is all state dependent. the nice thing about the guard is that when you commission, you pick your job and your state. so, say you want to be MI, and there is no MI here in VA (hypothetically), than you could look to MD and say oh hey, here is MI, I will call up that unit and see if they have a slot for me. That, in a round-a-bout much more complicated way, is how accessions work for the guard